PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS FOR PARENTS, PROFESSIONAL, CHILDREN & TEENS DONNA SHEA, BA Workshops & Professional Development Seminars can easily be tailored or customized for your group. 2019 Speaker Fees are $600 for up to a two-hour workshop. Longer seminars can be arranged. BIO: Donna Shea, Founder of The Peter Pan Center for Social & Emotional Growth, is a social-emotional learning specialist, holding a degree in Behavioral Science from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Since opening the Peter Pan Center in 2002, she has worked to address the needs of families whose children are struggling with behavior and social challenges. Donna brings 32 years of life experience to her work as a parent of two sons with ADHD, Anxiety and Sensory Integration Challenges. Donna is a consultant to schools, parent groups, and human service agencies. She is also a seasoned public speaker and travels to bring workshops and seminars to groups and venues outside the local area. She has certifications in Cognitive Behavioral Coaching, Positive Psychology and Bullying Prevention. Donna is also the co-writer of the How to Make & Keep Friends book series. WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS Emotionally Challenging Children: What to Look for and How to Help (Creator: Donna Shea) A workshop for focused on potential challenges that a child has that may be contributing to disruptive behavior in the classroom, in extended daycare or at home. These are the A+ kids. Awesome, with a little extra “ plus. ” We will explore possible signs of Anxiety, Attention Challenges, Anger & Mood Challenges, Avoidance, Autism Spectrum Disorders and more. Behavior: The Language of Children (Creator: Donna Shea) Children communicate through their behavior. Behavioral problems may occur when we misunderstand what a child is trying to tell us. Adults may find themselves continuously addressing the same behaviors and wondering why their child keeps repeating these behaviors. This workshop will help you to get under the behavior and discover what it is a child is trying to tell you. The workshop will provide simple, yet effective tools for managing behavior issues. We’ll explore t he role of development, how to read a child’s temperament in the context of "too much, too little or just right" and share strategies to assist in better understanding the language of behavior. You’re Not the Boss of Me: Teaching a Child to be a Flexible Thinker by Being a Flexible-Thinking Adult (Creator: Donna Shea) You may notice the more you try to force an issue, the harder a child will fight back. In this workshop, we will discuss that fine line between necessary adult authority and letting a child be their own person. We will discuss the importance of teaching children frustration tolerance and flexible thinking skills using a you-me-we method of problem solving. Participants will also learn creative problem-solving strategies as well as specific tips and language to use to decrease conflict and create a flexible-thinking environment.
Friendship & Social Coaching Helping Kids Make & Keep Friends (Co-Creators: Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs) This workshop explores the barriers to friendship that may be preventing a child from having positive peer relationships. We'll explore how to help a child recognize and overcome these barriers, the important role that adults play in social coaching and tips on how to teach children social independence and increase their social success. After School: The Learning Place for Social Skills (Creator: Donna Shea) Most of us of a certain age may remember coming home from school and being sent out to play until dinner time. With large shifts in our culture, including safety concerns, homework loads, structured activities and families with two working parents, most kids are no longer afforded this neighborhood in-the-trenches social learning experience. Social learning is now happening during recess periods and in after school programs. This workshop focuses on providing after school program personnel and other child-based program staff Donna's in-the-moment social coaching methodology to help children find social success and to navigate social challenges that occur for all kids. The workshop will introduce key phrases for social coaching children in-the-moment and provide actionable strategies to help children initiate, maintain and sustain positive peer interactions. Topics will include problem solving, sharing, frustration management, sportsmanship, tattling, managing mean behaviors and more. Problems & Solutions: Behavior Strategies for Extended Day & Childcare Providers (Creator: Donna Shea) This workshop provides extended day and other child caregivers with concrete strategies and solutions for common behavior problems. We will discuss how people can be problem creators, problem enhancers, problem victims and problem solvers. We will discuss problems and solutions in five different areas: behavior, anger, social skills, peers and respect. Behavior Begins with Respect (Co-Creators: Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs) Respect is a two-way street. In respecting children, their feelings and opinions, we model for them how to respect ours and those of other children. This workshop will focus on helping adults teach children respectful ways to interact with others and ultimately create a more respectful school environment. Kindness Counts & Manners Matter (Creators: Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs). We all want other people to respect us, listen to us and use good manners. In this workshop, we focus on building a culture of kindness and good manners and discuss how that leads to creating mutual respect between adults and children. We talk about removing expectations that children must be friends with each other, and provide strategies for supporting children in getting along, including each other, and more.
Surviving Adolescence: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast! (Creator: Donna Shea) In these workshops on adolescents, we will explore adolescent development and how this exciting, yet sometimes excruciating, process of growing up can impact those in its path. Surviving Adolescence will explore why teens become allergic to their parents, prefer the advice of other adults, and how boys and girls’ journey through adolescence is similar and different ways. We will talk about how to gain respect from a teen, tips for communication and collaboration, strategies for connecting with a teen as opposed to a younger child and how to avoid the traps teens set for us and the communication traps we set for ourselves. Just Do What I Say! Tips for Managing Conflict and the Need for Control (Creator: Donna Shea) Do you find yourself in frequent conflict with a child? In this workshop focused on frustration management, participants will gain a better understanding of why these conflicts occur and leave with easy actionable strategies to help with problem-solving skills and flexible thinking. We will discuss the rules about being angry, strategies to manage anger and power plays when they do occur, how to communicate and collaborate rather than retaliate, and develop more positive methods of interaction and discipline. Supporting the ADHD Child (Creator: Donna Shea) This workshop for will provide a soup to nuts view of AD/HD. We'll look at the different variations of attentional issues and explore whether or not it could be something else. We'll talk about the facts and myths about AD/HD and the effect an ADHD child has on the world around them. Treatment options will be discussed as well as providing straightforward strategies to help adults more effectively manage the impact of ADHD. Supporting the Anxious Child (Creator: Donna Shea) Anxiety in children can often present itself as a behavior problem. This workshop will explore anxiety in children and its impact on behavior. It will in learning how to recognize anxiety, the questions to ask and strategies to help a child manage their worries. We'll discuss the challenges of anxious children including rigid thinking, the need to control their environment and perfectionism. It’s Not Nice to Hit People: Understanding and Managing Aggression in Preschoolers (Creator: Donna Shea) In this workshop, we’ll discuss factors and facts about aggression in young children. We’ll briefly discuss temperament and how parenting /teaching styles effect the way we handle aggression, and external factors contributing to aggressive behaviors. We’ll explore the steps to managing aggression in young children as well as strategies to help a young child to not become a victim of aggression.
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